Scrolling through this list is guaranteed to be a real pick-me-up. Some of these answers to Redditor u/ThomasTheGreatGenius‘s question:
“What is something a fictional character said that stuck with you?” are truly great.
Take a scroll through and grab some to write down for yourself for a rainy day.
1. Homer Simpson
“This is the worst day of your life….. So far.”
2. Gandolf
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
3. Ragnar Lothbrok
“Don’t waste your time looking back. We’re not going that way.”
4. Divinity, Original Sin 2
“There’s… triplets in my mind. The woman I am. the woman I must be. The woman I long to be. Like all sisters, they tend to be at odds with one another. From time to precious time. “
5. Lemony Snicket
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
6. JD, Scrubs
“You can ask any doctor, sometimes it seems like patients just hang on until everyone’s had a chance to say goodbye.”
7. Grandpa Simpson
“Money doesn’t change people. It just makes it easier for them to be who they are.”
8. Jake The Dog
“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”
9. Lagasov, Chernobyl
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later this debt is paid…”
10. Granny Weatherwax
“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
11. Uncle Iroh
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
12. Dalinar Kholin
“But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
13. Tyler Durden
“It’s only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything.”
14. Corrado Soprano
“Some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they’re leading.”
15. Alexis Rose
“People aren’t thinking about you the way that you’re thinking about you.”
16. John Marston
“We all need friends, old timer. We die alone, but we live among men.”
17. Ted Lasso
“Guys have underestimated me my entire life. And for years, I never understood why. It used to really bother me. But then one day, I was driving my little boy to school and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman, and it was painted on the wall there. It said, “Be curious, not judgmental.” I like that.
So I get back in my car and I’m driving to work, and all of a sudden it hits me. All them fellas that used to belittle me, not a single one of them were curious. You know, they thought they had everything all figured out. So they judged everything, and they judged everyone. And I realized that their underestimating me… who I was had nothing to do with it.”
18. Captain Picard
“It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness; that is life.”
19. Hitchhiker’s Guide
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
20. Diane, Bojack Horseman
“I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being and you can be grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in your life forever”